Visions Of Gender Research Articles

The Social Cults of Cinematic Gendered Violence: A Challenge and Transformation

The modern female rape–revenge cinema polarizes gender relations as it endorses a misandrist logic and brutal forms of reprisal. Wilson Harris, the British/Guyanese fiction writer and theorist, argues that these hypnotic forms of female-revenge media are social cults of violence that generate a conflict of gender. Using the film, I Spit on your Grave and Rihanna’s music video Man Down, this research demonstrates that the female-revenge mediascape is prime corollary to the promotion of misandry and violent vigilante justice. The film theories of Claire Henry, Hilary Neroni, and Jean Baudrillard will undergird the arguments of this research. The research methodology for this study employs a narrative analysis intersected with the lens of Wilson Harris’s shamanistic ontology of gender. The findings of this paper reveal that a shamanic vision of gender could therapeutically convert the psychical imprisonment of cinematic rape-revenge violence.

The Specter of Female Masculinity: How Women Shaped the Ex-gay Movement in the 1970s and 1980s

Starting in the 1970s, the “ex-gay movement,” a loose collection of conservative Christian counselors and therapists, experienced sizable growth in the United States. Importantly, women played a prominent role in the expansion of the ex-gay movement in the ensuing decades, both as counselors and as counselees. This article highlights the tension that arose between the patriarchal gender norms and the role women counselors played in the ex-gay movement. When read “along the grain,” ex-gay texts demonstrate the production of a gendered hierarchy that not only valued “female femininity” over “female masculinity” but also reified patriarchal authority in the US. Female pastoral counselors, such as Leanne Payne and Elizabeth Moberly, advocated for the conservative gendered vision of the religious right. But as women, these counselors—and their books—could not transcend the patriarchal order of the religiously conservative ex-gay movement.

Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil

Inspired by the anthropology of social policy, this article explores the labyrinth of knowledge forms, politics and morality through which a certain programme for early childhood development (ECD) has unfolded in Brazil. By tracking the materiality of ideas – the actors who defend them, the experiments that back them, and the institutional vectors that assure them legitimacy – I weave together variegated threads from neuroscientists, BBC documentaries and Brazilian politicians to moralised motherhoods, criminal brains and, finally, a surprising appraisal on the diminished cognitive capacity of a whole population. Nurtured in the critical analyses of intensive parenting and correlated discussions on ‘chaotic concepts’, I hope to seize on the Brazilian experience to incorporate a new variable into the cost-benefit equation often used to favour ECD – that of the moral fall-out concerning visions of gender, family and class.

Burnout in nursing: A vision of gender and "invisible" unrecorded care.

To reflect on how characteristics inherent in the nursing profession might be related to burnout syndrome among the nursing collective. Most people are unaware of the tasks and responsibilities of the nursing profession, as well as the burnout rates suffered by nurses. The nursing profession is a feminized profession, and this feminization may lead to the assignment of gender stereotypes and roles traditionally attributed to women. Much of the care provided by nurses is unrecorded, "invisible" and could be seen as an extension of their role as caregivers. This is a discussion paper. The literature on gender stereotypes, unrecorded (invisible) care in nursing and burnout are the argumentative basis of this work. Stereotypes and gender roles may explain the lack of recognition of some of the carework carried out by nurses. Care, which is the essence of the profession, continues to be largely invisible and is not valued. This lack of recognition of invisible care, coupled with gender stereotypes, may help to understand burnout syndrome in nursing. Health organizations should take into account the history of the nursing profession and the stereotypes associated with it. It is necessary to recognize and make visible much of the care provided by nurses which are not recorded (invisible care), since this would facilitate the visibilization of the workload and could reduce the possibility of suffering burnout. If we want quality care and staff who enjoy the greatest possible well-being, it will be necessary to take these variables into consideration. One purpose should be: to care for them so that they can provide quality care to others. This is a discussion paper.

Corps, culture et société: une lecture de L’enfant de sable et La nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun

This article aims to study the vision of Tahar Ben Jelloun towards the body through which the social and cultural situation of the Maghreb countries is clarified. The Moroccan author charges the body with the Arab-Muslim tradition, with male domination and culture, with the erasure of women in society. Hadj Ahmed Souleïmane, in a country that favours men, after having had seven daughters, he feels dishonoured, castrated, finally to repair this evil and rehabilitate his honour, he makes his daughter a boy, from birth, who will be the man of the family, his heir, not only of material goods but essentially of the values of masculinity and patriarchy. He manipulates both his daughter’s body and her way of thinking, teaching her how to become a man according to tradition, also inspecting her body, her reactions and her actions. The body is thus polysemous, through which we understand Ben Jelloun’s vision of gender, culture, family education, society, the male/female relationship and religion. Ben Jelloun uses the body for subversive reasons in order to deconstruct society’s vision of the body, of the values and culture that determine society. In his work, the body thus consists in condemning and denouncing.

Queer Remains: Mourning and Inheritance in Lo Yi-chin’s Banishing Sorrow

This article examines Lo Yi-chin’s 2001 novel Banishing Sorrow, a controversial tribute to the late Taiwanese queer author Qiu Miaojin. Renowned for her writings on nonnormative desires, Qiu attracted a cult following in the wake of her suicide in 1995, but her posthumous fame has paradoxically eclipsed her nuanced vision of gender and sexuality since her skepticism toward fixed categories is potentially at odds with the quest for identity and recognition in the local LGBT rights movement. Published six years after Qiu’s death, Lo’s Banishing Sorrow represents a bold effort to challenge the identity-based approach to Qiu’s work. Echoing the metaphor of the disorderly body in Qiu’s writings, Banishing Sorrow deploys the trope of corporeal fragmentation to problematize how sexual identities have become essentialized and fixed in her postmortem reception. Reading Lo’s tribute alongside Qiu’s oeuvre, this article draws on theories of mourning, spectrality, and animacy to explore how Banishing Sorrow opens up new possibilities for Qiu’s afterlife beyond the confines of identity politics.

The Rules of Attraction: An Empirical Critique of Pseudoscientific Theories about Sex in the Manosphere

Academic research is dedicating growing attention to the phenomenon known as the manosphere, where genders and (hetero)sexual relations are explained according to the so-called Red Pill philosophy and LMS theory. In this article, we critically analyze these theories and their pseudoscientific assumptions using a Bourdieusian framework, and we analyze the empirical effects they have in the Incel and Red Pill Italian communities through the example of the “Aranzulla case”. By exploring the “Redpiller” blog and two Incel forums (“Forum of the uglies” and “Forum of the Incel”), we found that, on one hand, the Red Pill and LMS theories are strongly contradictory in themselves because, even if they combine socio-economic and biological theories to explain sexual relations, they assume a fixed vision of gender based on (supposedly) natural inclinations. On the other hand, our results show that these theories promote misogynistic content blaming women for men’s unsatisfaction, but they actually unveil intragender dynamics. Indeed, they produce tensions inside the manosphere, by creating hierarchies of masculinities, and around the possibility of escaping the biological destiny linked to the Incel condition.

Understanding the Experiences of Female Members in Zila Parishad, Sylhet, Bangladesh

To encourage women to engage in Bangladesh politics, the local government unit introduced the requirements for reserving seats for women. For this, a district council was formed with a chairperson, and fifteen members, including five reserved seats for women. As a result, in the last four decades, it is evident that there has been an increase in women’s participation in politics and governance. This study explores the female members’ experiences of performing their roles as a member and promoting specific agendas and implementing them. Qualitative methodology was used in this research to assemble data by conducting an in-depth interview with female members looking at their experiences in four Zila Parishads in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. The findings suggest that the Local Government of Bangladesh should not look at the existing provisions under the Constitution to increase the number of women in the public arena as an end goal but instead as a means to help accomplish gender equity. To achieve this, organisations and instruments of government must recognise a Bangladeshi woman’s identity beyond the vision of gender.

A Rogerian Vision of Gender in a Pandimensional Universe.

Rogers' science of unitary human beings is used to present a unitary process in the origin of humans and the evolution of gender. It is suggested that the increasing diversity of gender may be indicative of the future of humankind. Human field image and Barrett's power theory are used to understand gender identity, experience, and expression for wellbecoming.

Review: Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990, by Shai Feraro

Paganism is experiencing its moment now and, alongside appearances in popular culture and a rise in adherents, this has meant an uptick in scholarship about this corner of the religious landscape. Shai Feraro’s Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990 is a welcome addition to this development. It is one of the few historical analyses of the tradition to look at trends over a long period time while also taking a lived religions approach, focusing equally on the institution and individual. Feraro examines an array of data in each chapter, telling a story that includes characters and traditions explored from different directions.Feraro’s focus on gender and women speaks to the heart of much debate in Pagan communities. The roles of the Goddess and priestess are seen as important innovations, while a focus on reified gender norms as a driving force in ritual creation and theology creates ongoing controversy. Feraro focuses on “how British Wiccans and Wiccan-derived Pagans reacted to the rise of ‘second wave’ feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement” (1), and particularly how these influences moved back and forth over the Atlantic, often originating in the United States.The first two chapters of the book are a genealogy of gender issues in British Paganism. The first chapter focuses on Victorian magicians such as Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune, the second on founding figures in early Wicca like Gerald Gardner and Alex and Maxine Sanders. These figures made room for the Goddess and priestesses in their tradition and gave lip service to the power of the divine feminine, but Feraro concludes that nearly all institutional power, and much of the ritual power, was still held by men.The third chapter focuses on the role that second wave feminism played in the evolution of Paganism. Feraro is interested in radical and cultural feminism, defining radical feminism as a reaction to liberal feminism’s focus on achieving societal equality. Cultural feminists argue that “women…must break away from male institutions, culture, and language and form a new women’s movement” (8). Radical feminism goes further and embraces a biological difference between men and woman, urging women to leverage their innate qualities and fix the world in ways men cannot. These ideas entered British Paganism primarily through the work of Z. Budapest, whose Dianic Wicca excluded men from all rituals, and her disciple Starhawk, who advocated for a more open practice and did more to spread Wicca around the world than anyone else. Somewhat ironically, Feraro addresses a topic that is often the focus of conversations around women in witchcraft: the role of men.The fourth and fifth chapters cover the locations and people involved with the adoption of these new forms of feminism in British Paganism. Feraro uses archived letters, public records, and personal interviews to paint a picture of this influence. Here, Feraro’s specific area of research becomes clearer. The anchor of most of the rest of the book is on the robust Pagan culture of Glastonbury in the 1970s and 1980s and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, a community that sprang up outside the Greenham RAF base to protest the use of nuclear weapons.The sixth chapter discusses the reaction of established figures in British Paganism to these innovations. The seventh tackles similar issues through the eyes of those outside leadership positions by drawing from Pagan-related zines, an underused resource in the world of Pagan studies. Many zines contain long letter sections where conversations play out among those who likely never met each other, but here Feraro concentrates almost entirely on the publishers of these magazines.One flaw of the book lies in the difference between its stated scope and its actual content. While it promises an exploration of women and gender issues in British Paganism writ large, the book ends up primarily covering the debates surrounding cultural and radical feminism occurring in Glastonbury and Greenham Common during the 1970s and 1980s—an important part of gender and women in Paganism, but not exhaustive. This book could have benefited from a more robust vision of gender in British Paganism. In a way, this is a trap of academia in general. Too often we are asked for a comprehensive study of a large field without straying outside of the relatively small data set in which we have become experts.Nevertheless, this book is a valuable resource about an important corner of Paganism’s history. It will be an important touchstone for this burgeoning subfield of modern Western Magick traditions.

Динамика гендерных репрезентаций в интернет-общении (на материале китайского языка)

The article describes changes in the vision of gender of the Chinese that are currently taking place due to globalization and the increased role of the feminist movement in the world. The article aims to describe words and phrases that reflect the contemporary gender vision of native Chinese speakers as well as to analyze the influence of global agenda on the formation of ideas about femininity and masculinity. The paper reviews the theoretical studies of Chinese scientists in the field of gender linguistics, determines the areas where the influence of Western theories is the most significant. The article describes the social status of men and women in three main periods: pre-imperial and imperial China, communist China in the 20th century, modern China in the 21st century. However, the main focus of the article is on the modern Chinese language, as there is a lack of studies in this field. Gender representations reflected in the Xinhua Internet Dictionary （新华 网络 语言 词 典） and the online dictionary 小鸡 词典 were selected as the research material. We selected words and set phrases containing such characters as 女 “woman” and 男 “man”, studied their description provided by vocabulary entries, reviewed gender representation in media.

Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film

Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film

Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America: Competing Visions and Facilitating Institutions

ABSTRACTRecent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region’s historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies—as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies—reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that populate the region’s political landscape. Using an original dataset of family policy measures, this article finds that the factors facilitating the adoption of new, vanguard policies, such as paternity leave, function in ways different from those that shape the expansion of longer-standing policies, including maternity leave.

Vision of Gender in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana: Functions of Multiplexed Corporal Masks

Through the integration of the local Yakshagana and the western Brechtian Epic theatre practices, Girish Karnad through Hayavadana (1971) has formed a brilliant theatre show. One theatrical device, apart from the folk-theatre motifs, is the utilization of physical masks on stage. The reading examines different techniques used by Karnad, which provide the staging of masks successful in theatre. It furthermore focuses on the objectives, techniques, and types of mask treatment in expressions of disguise and revelation at the physical level. The purpose of this exploration is to make a complete study of the expressive masks used in Hayavadana (1971) to interpret the proposed reality of the characters. The qualitative approach has been adopted as a methodology where the interpretive method of investigation has been engaged to search for the secreted meanings in the text. Professed through the lens of select theoretical structure, Hayavadana becomes a site of diversity and range.

¿Y los hombres? Producción científica y contenidos formativos sobre trabajo social y masculinidades en España

El género es una categoría de análisis que las ciencias sociales en general y el trabajo social en particular incorporan en sus prácticas e investigaciones con diferentes resultados e intensidad. Los Men’s Studies analizan las masculinidades, entendidas como conjunto de valores y comportamientos que una sociedad impone en relación a cómo “debe ser un hombre”. A pesar de que una determinada forma de ejercer la masculinidad es un “factor de riesgo”, que conlleva vulnerabilidades no solo para las mujeres, sino también para los propios hombres, mujer y género se utilizan, en muchas ocasiones, como sinónimos. Mediante un análisis bibliométrico y documental, se constata que en España, por un lado, el estudio de las masculinidades no se ha incorporado a los contenidos curriculares de 36 titulaciones de Grado en Trabajo Social; por otro lado, las revistas científicas más importantes sobre trabajo social tampoco han publicado artículos sobre intervención social con hombres. Se propone la inclusión de esta línea de trabajo para ofrecer una visión holística de los estudios de género y su aplicación al trabajo social.

Educación en Tiempos del Género. Consideraciones en Torno a una Educación No Sexista y No Generista

espanolEl presente articulo analiza la forma en que el sistema educativo chileno ha reaccionado tanto a los debates socioeducativos recientes como a las transformaciones que la sociedad esta experimentando en terminos de genero, sexualidad y familia. Los estudios realizados muestran la produccion de cambios en estos ambitos en la sociedad, no asi en el sistema educacional, desde donde se invisibilizan las formas familiares alternativas, predominan visiones restrictivas del genero, la sexualidad juvenil y la diversidad sexual, situaciones probablemente relacionadas con la falta de formacion que los mismos profesores/as reconocen tener en estos temas. El articulo sugiere la necesidad de realizar estudios especificos con docentes que complementen el marco conceptual e investigativo con que se ha trabajado la educacion no sexista con un enfoque no generista, que incorpore las disidencias sexuales, las formas familiares emergentes y otros aspectos relacionados con el genero hasta ahora no considerados en las aproximaciones investigativas. EnglishThis article analyses the way in which the Chilean educational system has reacted both to recent socio-educational debates and to the transformations that society is experiencing in terms of gender, sexuality and family. Studies show how changes have taken place in these areas in society, but not in the educational system, where alternative family forms are invisible and restrictive visions of gender, youth sexuality and sexual diversity predominate, probably due to the lack of training that teachers themselves identify in these subjects. The article suggests carrying out specific studies with teachers and complementing the conceptual and investigative framework applied to non-sexist education with a non-genderist approach, incorporating sexual dissidence, emerging family forms and other gender-related aspects, not hitherto considered in approaches to research.

Desempenho acadêmico de uma perspectiva geográfica e de gênero em programas de distância

A pesquisa visa contrastar o desempenho acadêmico dos alunos pertencentes ao Mestrado em Educação Menção na Gestão da Qualidade em 2018, nas suas diferentes menções. A partir da dissecação das propostas feitas onde se aborda uma visão da região de origem e gênero. Método: A pesquisa é qualitativa com base no paradigma pós-positivista, com a participação de nove alunos: cinco mulheres e quatro homens, onde foram aplicadas entrevistas em profundidade a alunos que foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo. Resultados: A universidade não incorpora a perspectiva de gênero em seus processos educacionais e, por consequência, reproduz e legitima a socialização tradicional em sua visão de gênero, as mulheres apresentam lacunas positivas em relação aos homens, intensificando-se na região de Tarapacá, por Portanto, a participação das mulheres para os fins deste programa acadêmico é substancialmente maior do que a dos homens.

COVID-19 and pregnancy: An opportunity to correct an historic gender bias.

Current literature and clinical guidelines do not include pregnant women as an a priori risk group for COVID‐19. However, a gender vision of health begs the question: Why are pregnant women not considered a risk group for COVID‐19? The answer is clear: historically, most community scientific studies have not considered female gender, or pregnancy as a state, to be a focus of special interest or effort. Unfortunately, this bias seems to be maintained in the COVID‐19 epidemic: most current guidelines for diagnosing SARS‐CoV‐2 infection during pregnancy apply the same standard criteria as for the general population.

Dynamics of Gender Self and Other in Sharon Doubiago's South America Mi Hija

This paper explores the poetic feminist discourse of the South American poet Sharon Doubiago's epic South America Mi Hija and how she engenders and maintains her gender's visions and beliefs in masculine societies that still engulf the whole human world. She poetically defends herself and her gender refusing to submit to the standing patriarchal paradigm. She portrays herself as a modern spokesperson of her gender and its vulnerability to victimization. Doubiago also tries to cast her challenge against the dominant patriarchal power. Further, this paper sheds light on the poet’s optimism in winning the battle in the light of modern feminist analysis, providing relevant representations of her poetic discourse. It elucidates how the poet publicizes her feminist and gender thoughts despite the domination of the masculine power. As a result, as an intimate feminist poet, Doubiago succeeds in identification with her psyche and other similar selves that can assimilate with her soul and vision. In a broader sense, the focal hypothesis of this paper revolves around conceptualizing feminist poetics and gender in an appreciative receptionist way.

The collective power of women’s organisations in Chuuk, FSM

ABSTRACT Achieving gender equality is a key component for improving global health, but how to do so remains a complex undertaking. Each community’s experiences with gender inequality and vision for equality are historically and culturally specific, while also fitting larger global patterns. This is the case in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, a group of islands suffering from the impacts of a long history integrating coloniser and locally formed patriarchal values. Chuukese women often see their roles as powerless and silent except when acting through women’s groups. In recent decades, Chuukese women created an umbrella organisation for all women’s groups, yielding more power to effect change. Derived from an ethnographic study of the Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC), 1 focus group and 12 individual interviews were conducted with CWC members to explore women’s experiences advancing gender equality on their terms. Findings demonstrate how the CWC lobbied for legal change, replaced inadequate health and social services, and changed community conversations about gender. The CWC received national and international resources, which became both supportive and disruptive to their efforts. Findings from this study have implications for global support of grassroots efforts to achieve gender equality, with lasting implications for gender equity in health.